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{{Translation sidebar}}As of 2015, the [[Japanese language]] has two translations available of the [[Tirukkural]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Pallu | first1 = Nelza Mara | last2 = Mohanty | first2 = Panchanan | last3 = Durga | first3 = Shiva | author-link = | title = Thirukkural Translations: A Sacred Text From the Town of Peacocks—Mayilâpûr India | journal = International Journal of Development Research | volume = 13 | issue = 5 | pages = 62551–62553 | date = May 2023 | url = https://www.journalijdr.com/sites/default/files/issue-pdf/26323.pdf | jstor = | issn = 2230-9926 | doi = 10.37118/ijdr.26323.05.2023 | doi-broken-date = 12 July 2025 | access-date = 18 November 2023}}</ref>

==History==
The first Japanese translation of the Kural text was made by [[Shuzo Matsunaga]] in 1981.<ref name="Polilan2019">{{cite book |editor1= Polilan|editor2=K. Gunathogai|editor3=Lena Kumar|editor4=Tagadur Sampath|editor5=Mutthamizh|editor6=G. Picchai Vallinayagam|editor7=D. Anbunidhi|editor8=K. V. Neduncheraladhan|title=Tiruvalluvar 2050 |url= |year=2019 |edition=1|publisher=Periyar Enthusiasts Group |location=Chennai|access-date= |language=Tamil|page=686|isbn= }}</ref><ref name="Hindu_FriendshipWithstoodTime">{{cite news
| last = Kannadasan
| first = Akila
| title = Friendship that has withstood time
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Coimbatore
| publisher = Kasturi & Sons
| date = 24 June 2012
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/friendship-that-has-withstood-time/article3564823.ece
| access-date = 4 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="Hindu_ScholarPassesAway">{{cite news
| last = Saqaf
| first = Syed Muthahar
| title = Tamil scholar passes away
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Salem
| publisher = Kasturi & Sons
| date = 31 March 2016
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/tamil-scholar-passes-away/article8415656.ece
| access-date = 4 January 2018}}</ref> Work on the translation began in the 1970s when Matsunaga chanced upon a few translated lines from the original work. Through his pen-pal in India, he obtained guidance and a copy of an English translation of the work by [[George Uglow Pope]].<ref name="MM_IndianOnJapanStamp">{{cite journal
| last = Bhaskar
| first = Sailendra
| title = The Indian on a Japanese stamp
| journal = Madras Musings
| volume = XXVI
| issue = 3
| date = May 16–31, 2016
| url = http://www.madrasmusings.com/vol-26-no-3/the-indian-on-a-japanese-stamp/
| access-date = 4 January 2018}}</ref> Having completed the translation by 1980, he published it the next year when he also attended the 5th World Classical Tamil Conference in [[Madurai]] in 1981, where he presented his research essay on the Kural.<ref name="MM_IndianOnJapanStamp"/> Matsunaga also translated it into [[Korean language|Korean]].<ref>{{cite book
| last = Padmanabhan
| first = S.
| title = Thiruvalluvar, a universal poet (Released on the occasion of unveiling of the 133-feet high statue of the immortal bard Thiruvalluvar)
| publisher = Kanyakumari Historical and Cultural Research Centre
| date = 2000
| location = Nagecoil, India
| pages = 60 pages
}}</ref>

The second translation of the work was made by Japanese [[Indologist]] [[Takanobu Takahashi]] in 1999, which was titled ''Thirukkural: Sacred Verses of Ancient Tamil'' (ティルックラル: ティルヴァッルヴァル=著高橋孝信=訳). 南インドのタミル地方で，今もなお誰もが口にする1300余の箴言。6世紀頃につくられ，法・財・愛をテーマにインド的思考を結晶させた聖なる短詩 (ティルックラル) を，詳細な注釈で読み解く) and was published by Heibonsha, [[Tokyo]].<ref name="Polilan2019"/>

In 2023, as part of its Ancient Tamil Classics in Translations series, the [[Central Institute of Classical Tamil]] (CICT) in Chennai released its Japanese translation of the Kural by Balamurugan Kasinathan.

==Legacy==
The first Japanese translation of the Kural, which was made with the guidance of S. M. Muthu, an Indian scholar of Tamil, eventually led to the [[Government of Japan|Japanese government]] felicitating him for his services to Japanese literature by issuing commemorative stamps bearing his picture in 2007.<ref name="Hindu_FriendshipWithstoodTime"/><ref name="MM_IndianOnJapanStamp"/> From the 50 odd letters through which Shuzo Matsunaga corresponded with Muthu during the translation work, Shuzo went on to publish his learning about the Indian culture in a book titled ''My India As Seen Through Letters''.<ref name="Hindu_FriendshipWithstoodTime"/><ref name="MM_IndianOnJapanStamp"/>

==See also==
* [[Tirukkural translations]]
* [[List of Tirukkural translations by language]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url = http://www.geocities.ws/nvkashraf/kur-trans/Chin-Int.htm | title = Tiruvalluvar and Tirukkural: 提鲁克鲁经, 印度教手稿 | last = Ashraf | first = N. V. K. | date = October 2005 | website = GeoCities | access-date = 16 April 2017 }}

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